Gary Kimura, chartermaster of the Kimura's Tackle Charter, remembered the five-day trip he had just ended August 3 at Pt. Loma Sportfishing. It was the tenth annual trip, he thought; this one aboard the Independence with skipper Jeff DeBuys.

"We toured Cedros," said Kimura, "and spent a couple of days there. We didn't do much looking offshore before that, but afterward, when we went out to fish paddies, we got yellowtail and dorado."

"It was excellent yellowtail fishing at Cedros," said skipper DeBuys. "They bit the jigs, too, and they bit the surface jig for me. I thought the dorado color was working well."

Pete Skibba of Arcadia won first place for a 47.4-pound yellowtail he took with a sardine on a 3/0 Gamakatsu hook. He said he fished with 40-pound Big Game line on an Avet LX reel and a Calstar 700 H rod.

"He bit close to the boat," said Skibba. "I wasn't in the water ten seconds before he bit. Then he took off for deep water, and he left the kelp. I got him in 20 minutes."

Ray Diaz of La Habra Heights was second for a 33-pounder, and Paul Marquez of Lakeside won third place for a 32.4-pound yellowtail.